www.3m.com

3M is a $23 billion science-based company with thousands of imaginative products. From health care to highway safety and office products, adhesives and abrasives our products are used by people around the world every day. Headquartered in St. Paul, Minn., the company has operations in nearly 65 countries and products sold in nearly 200. 3M Community Giving consists of product donations and cash grants by 3M and the 3M Foundation and bolstered by employee and retiree volunteerism. 2009, cash and product donations totaled almost $50 million with over half going to STEM education targeting communities where the company has a facility. There, partnerships are formed with individual schools or districts to bring financial and volunteer support to help students achieve and graduate ready for higher education. To date, 3M has awarded $1.5 million in support of PLTW.

http://www.bemis.com

Bemis Company is a major supplier of flexible packaging and pressure sensitive materials used by leading food, consumer products, and healthcare companies worldwide. The Company’s flexible packaging business has a strong technical base in polymer chemistry, film extrusion, coating and laminating, printing, and converting. Headquartered in Neenah, Wisconsin, Bemis employs approximately 20,000 individuals worldwide.

Established in 1959, the Bemis Company Foundation serves as the principal instrument of philanthropy for the Company, concentrating its support in three primary areas, Social Welfare and Health, Education, and Civic and Cultural Organizations. In 2012, Bemis Company and the Bemis Company Foundation generously contributed $2.1 million to PLTW to help grow and sustain PLTW in schools across the upper-Midwest, especially those with a high population of minority and socio-economically disadvantaged students.

www.cargill.com
Cargill has committed more than $2 million to support the launch of PLTW's "Pathway to Engineering" high school program and "Gateway to Technology" middle school program in more than 50 new schools over the next three years. PLTW will launch in schools near Cargill facilities across the United States. Specific locations will be identified throughout the three year funding partnership. States identified to date include Florida, Iowa, Ohio, Minnesota, Texas and Wisconsin.
www.chevron.com
Chevron Corporation has committed $1.125 million to PLTW's California network as the organizations launch an effort to improve STEM education in California. The Chevron grant, provided under Chevron’s California Partnership, an initiative to invest in education and economic development in its home state, will be used to strengthen STEM education in four selected regions located near Chevron facilities in Sacramento, Bakersfield, El Segundo and the East Bay Area.
www.publicpower.org
DEED, a research and grant program, helps APPA members fund innovative utility projects. DEED scholarships provide university students with an opportunity to learn about public power and the electric industry. Utilities become laboratories to pilot test innovative ideas and technologies and develop new resources to improve utility processes and practices. For more information > Click Here
www.intel.com
Since 2001, this Fortune 100 corporation has worked to bring PLTW to more students nationwide. Intel offers cash grants and computer donations to PLTW schools, provides internships and job-shadowing opportunities to students, and participates in special events designed to promote awareness of engineering and technology careers.
www.lockheedmartin.com
Lockheed Martin, which commits 50 percent of its philanthropic contributions, outreach initiatives, and volunteer hours to education, generously supports PLTW through a number of programs. The global aerospace firm supports 10 PLTW high schools in Lockheed Martin plant communities through matching grants, through mini-grants, and by providing engineer mentors and community relations personnel for each school’s PLTW partnership team through its innovative “Engineers in the Classroom” initiative. The company’s goal is to support 75 PLTW schools—new and existing—within five years, provide scholarships to PLTW graduates entering engineering majors, and provide content support and funding for the revision of PLTW’s aerospace curriculum. Through “Engineers in the Classroom,” Lockheed Martin works with PLTW schools—or those that will implement the PLTW curriculum—in communities near the corporation’s major business locations. In these schools, Lockheed Martin supplements the PLTW curriculum by supporting hands-on extracurricular activities that encourage teamwork and illustrate the engineering principles learned in the classroom. Lockheed Martin engineers help students connect what they are learning in the classroom to real-world careers and projects by guest lecturing in the classroom, coaching extracurricular teams, and serving as role models and mentors. In addition, the engineers serve as advisors and additional expert resources for teachers.
www.northropgrumman.com

Through generous grants from the global defense company’s foundation, three PLTW public schools in San Diego’s Poway Unified School District and two in Gloucester, Virginia, have been paired with Northrop Grumman engineer mentors. In the future, the company plans to expand the program to other regions where Northrop Grumman plant sites are located. At each partner school, a Northrop Grumman engineer is paired with a PLTW teacher, serving as a mentor for teachers and guiding students through real-life applications of lessons learned in the classroom each week. The engineers share their knowledge and industry experience to reinforce specific course assignments and support the program outside the classroom through presentations to interested parents and community groups.

www.rockwellautomation.com
This Fortune 500 company, headquartered in Milwaukee, funds several PLTW schools in Milwaukee and Cleveland, provides mentors for PLTW classrooms and hosts special events for area PLTW schools. Rockwell Automation is committed to increasing minority student participation in engineering.
www.smud.org

Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD), the sixth largest publicly owned utility in the United States, secured a $75,000 grant from the American Public Power Association (APPA) Demonstration of Energy-Efficient Developments (DEED) program and contributed $70,000 of in-kind resources toward the development, piloting, and launch of GTT’s Energy and the Environment unit and the Energy Lesson of the revised Principles Of Engineering curriculum.  In the Sacramento community, SMUD supports the Project Lead The Way, Inc. pre-engineering curricula at local schools by providing funding for teacher training, and supplies, by providing subject matter experts in the classroom, and by hosting students at SMUD’s Energy and Technology Center. SMUD is a recognized industry leader and award winner for its innovative energy efficiency programs, renewable power technologies, and for its sustainable solutions for a healthier environment.

 

www.saic.com
SAIC awarded PLTW a $400,000 sponsorship as part of an enterprise-wide effort to inspire and engage K-12 students in STEM education. Employee volunteers across the nation from SAIC and other companies will work with PLTW programs to encourage the development of problem solving, critical thinking, creative and innovative reasoning skills in students K-12, and provide them with a foundation and proven path to college, and career success in STEM-related fields. SAIC employees work directly with PLTW schools to bring real-world engineering experience into the classroom. SAIC is also sponsoring schools near company offices to adopt the PLTW curriculum and is supporting PLTW teachers who do double-duty as "STEM coaches" outside the classroom.
www.sprint.com
In January 2008, the Sprint Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Sprint Nextel, pledged $250,000 over three years to help the Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T) train pre-college educators to teach the PLTW curriculum. The funds donated by the Sprint Foundation, which were matched by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, will be used by Missouri S&T to train teachers from the Kansas City area to administer the PLTW math and science curriculum. As the leading PLTW affiliate in Missouri, Missouri S&T provides teacher training, professional development, and information to administrators and counselors and also holds the Missouri S&T Summer Training Institute.